Fiction

Travellers

Kate Cayley -

The car lurched in late-afternoon traffic. Trout’s palms were stuck to the seat. The driver frowned into the mirror, talking into his earpiece; she...

Caretakers

Andrew Eckholm -

It was in the fall of Alice’s eighth year in Park Slope that she threw out her couch. She already had two chairs; there...

A Crater on Jupiter

Courtney Causey -

So—I’m sitting up in my car garage halfway through my third Schiltz and fourth game of Solitaire when Rainey pull-up. I eye his old...

Busybody

Ashton Carlile -

There was once a busybody who lived on an island that was technically inside of a big peninsula. Her name was Maggie. Everything she...

Sanctuary

J. Vera Lee -

Years after our divorce, my dreams, during an on and off again tryst with a man named Otto, feature X: both of us cleaning...

There Are No Hills On the Cape

Duncan Birmingham -

Lilly dipped a rice cracker into the specialty market hummus her mother had laid out on the kitchen island and wondered how much her...

We Cannot Yet Call It Failure

Mesha Maren -

I dream of dog death. Every night for weeks sometimes. It comes in spells, dog dreams and then nothing. Back when I was a...

A Fun Mix of Garments for All Occasions

Rachel Hoiles Farrell -

When Cher saw the girl on the drive home that evening, she pulled to the shoulder and offered her a ride, even though the...

Reaching for a Signal

Caleb Michael Sarvis -

Lee asks me what I think of a painting, if it captures the sense of ceremony we’re looking for, but all I want to...

Cosabella Blues

Lauren Lauterhahn -

He left earlier that morning to meet his college roommate from Berkeley for breakfast, something he did the first Saturday every month. After breakfast...